| Rick Hansen Foundation | Rick Hansen Foundation School Program | The program offers in-school presentations and comprehensive on-line resources for Administrators, teachers and students designed to increase disability awareness, accessibility, inclusion and empower students. The program includes:
1. Abilities in Motion online resources that raise students’ awareness about the potential of persons with disabilities and the importance of accessibility and inclusion.
2. The Difference Maker program inspires, empowers and recognizes students who make a difference in their schools and communities. It includes a four lesson plan with activities, projects and videos for teachers that focus on recognition, friendship, inspiration, leadership and problem-solving.
3. Rick Hansen Ambassadors showcases personal stories of individuals with a range of disabilities overcoming the challenges they face in life and thriving.
4. Online resources are available at www.rickhansen.com/schools. |
| Right To Play Canada | PLAY Program (Concrete Warriors) | The Promoting Life-skills in Aboriginal Youth (PLAY) program is designed to provide Aboriginal/Indigenous children and youth access to high-quality programs that use play to build and enhance their life-skills to make a difference in their own lives and the lives of others. While the basis of the programs are designed by child development and educational experts, all are adapted and modified in consultation with children, youth, parents, and Elders of PLAY’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit partners. Session topics include: youth leadership workshops, arts-based programming, sport and recreational activities. |
| Right To Play Canada | Play Your Part | Play Your Part is based on the “Right To Play Lives Here” philosophy which is encouraged in participating schools. There are three programming components in this initiative:
1. Assembly
Inspiring stories of athletes, and of children and youth globally who actively participate in Right To Play programs, are delivered by a Right To Play Facilitator. They are offered in January/February of each year to a select number of schools, through an application process.
2. Workshop
The Workshop is a full-day workshop that empowers students to become leaders through developing facilitation skills and increasing knowledge around global citizenship while developing an understanding of the benefits of experiential learning through play. Students become certified as Junior Leaders, able then to lead Right To Play games that educate their peers about child rights, global development and leadership back at their school.
3. Activation
Designed to unite students across Canada and within each school, the Activation encompasses four critical components through a Play Day led by student leaders: social justice, being active, character development, and giving back. All games used on this day are inclusive and encourage team-work, physical fitness, sport, cooperation and critical thinking. The event is designed to connect students with social justice issues in an experiential form.
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| Right To Play Canada | Youth to Youth | Youth to Youth (Y2Y) is a platform for youth leadership within Toronto’s inner-city. It empowers youth to take the lead by harnessing the power of play to improve educational, health and employment outcomes for themselves and other youth in their community. Programming includes:
*Capacity Building - Y2Y trains and supports educators and youth workers to provide leadership opportunities and training to youth that is designed to develop skills, enhance confidence, and inspire youth to engage with their communities.
*Youth Voice - By creating a platform for youth leadership and youth voice, Y2Y supports youth who may be hard to reach or disengaged to re-connect and become role models in their schools and local communities.
*Outcome Based Play and Physical Activity – Using Right To Play’s methodology, Youth Leaders design and lead free play-based programs for younger children in their schools and communities. These activities are designed to be outcome based and educational, building toward more happier, healthier and more inclusive environments.
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| Righteoussun | Yoga: Restoring Body and Mind | The workshop consists of mindful activities that will reduce stress and aid to balance the body and mind. Activities include yoga, meditation, mindfulness exercises and journaling to increase positive well-being and develop a healthy physical and mental life. Students will journal their activities to track their own progress as well as use this as a mindfulness activity to pay attention to their thoughts that arise in the present moment. For younger students, the workshop uses play, stories and teamwork. For older students, focus will be on poses that improves physical balance and awareness of connection to their bodies. Professional learning workshops are also available. |
| Rita Dagenais | Treaty Making in Canada | Treaties have been signed since 1701 and are still being negotiated today. Every treaty tells a story. The presentation focuses on WHY treaties were signed, with an emphasis on the perspectives of the indigenous signatories. These sessions provide a brief over-view of the history of treaty making, beginning with the Peace and Friendship Treaties signed during the Seven Years War. But I focus primarily on the land cession treaties whereby indigenous nations surrendered ownership (aboriginal title) of their lands to the Crown. The government wanted to acquire Indians lands to allow for the building of railways, resource development and settlement. I explore the issue of why indigenous people would sign these treaties. The only way to answer this question is to understand the circumstances faced by indigenous groups just prior to signing these treaties (disappearance of the buffalo, starvation, epidemics). Focus is on 2 treaties: Treaty 6 signed by the Cree in 1876 and Treaty 7 signed the following year by the Blackfoot.
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| Rock Solid Productions Inc. | Rocks and Rings | The program is designed to introduce the sport of curling to elementary school students. Unique indoor floor curling equipment is provided and placed in the gym offering an off-ice experience and physical activity. Sessions include various drills, relays and team-building activities. At the end of each session, each participating student receives his/her own graduation certificate. |
| Roots of Empathy | Roots of Empathy Classrooms | By bringing a real baby and parent into classrooms, the Roots of Empathy program aims to raise the social/emotional competence of students through increasing students’ capacity for empathy. It gives children the opportunity to observe the baby’s development and the interaction between baby and parent. The relationship between the parent and child is a template for positive, empathic human relationships aimed to shape how children deal with each other and to lay a foundational example for their future as parents and citizens.
A neighbourhood infant and parent visit the classroom every three weeks over the school year. A trained ROE instructor coaches students to observe the baby's development and to label the baby's feelings. Although it is Roots of Empathy’s responsibility to recruit ROE classroom program instructors and families/babies, ROE always welcomes school-based decisions for the selection of ROE instructors and local families with babies who want to become involved in the program. School/s designated by ROE as 'ROE Centres of Excellence' host ROE guests and media to showcase the program, as requested. |
| Roseneath Theatre | Roseneath Theatre Touring Productions | Roseneath Theatre offers professional theatre performances and workshops that support character education, curriculum connections and social justice for young audiences.
Roseneath Theatre produces 3-4 performances per year that feature a particular theme and focus written by recognized playwrights from across Canada. Each performance comprises a study guide to provide classroom activities, resources and pre and post show questions. Following each performance, a scripted question and answer session with cast explores current topics and issues, critically analyze concepts, and build connections that relate to health and well-being and relationships to oneself and others. All learning resources are available online at www.roseneath.ca/for-teachers. |
| Rulentlez Movements | Language in Motion | These workshops support students to express themselves using music and dance. Students learn dance creation, musicality and critical thinking skills, by connecting body language and sound in order to communicate through dance. Games are played during workshops that involve a variety of dance movement to stimulate students’ creativity, art-based activities, and physical exercises mixed with yoga movements to strengthen the body and to correct posture. |
| Ryerson University | Early Childhood Studies Field Placements | Early Childhood Studies Field Placements provide post-secondary students who are considering a career within early childhood education an opportunity to gain direct experience in understanding the learning strategies employed in classrooms. These placements satisfy college course requirements for field placement students to collaborate with TDSB teaching staff to enhance their understanding of curriculum; to plan and implement activities for TDSB students; to foster positive relationships with children, staff, parents, and families, and to provide resources to assist TDSB students to successfully transition through the early grades. |
| Ryerson University | MHSc and PMDip Dietetics Field Placements | This MOU serves to provide field placement opportunities for graduate students in MHSc and PMDip Dietetics. Field placements within TDSB sites provide graduate students who are considering a career in Nutrition, an opportunity to learn by working alongside a supervising TDSB Nutrition Services staff person. These placements satisfy course requirements for field placement experience. |
| Ryerson University | MSW Field Placements | MSW students acquire field education experience in social work services with TDSB staff mentors; working with TDSB students, schools and families. Field placements within TDSB sites provide post-secondary MSW students who are considering a career in Social Work, the opportunity to learn by working alongside a supervising TDSB Social Worker. These placements satisfy post-secondary course requirements for field placement experience. |
| Ryerson University | We Will Read | In this long standing partnership program with the TDSB, Early Childhood Studies Field Placement students work one-on-one with grade one students to improve literacy skills. The focus of the program is to provide reading partners for children with disabilities or with additional support needs. Participating schools have four days of programming for eleven weeks between January and April. Each post-secondary field placement student is at the school for two days per week, with a minimum of two students placed at the same school to provide the four days of literacy programming under the supervision of grade one classroom educators. |
| SAFE International | Personal Safety Training | Strategies to avoid violence that address the physical, psychological and emotional elements of self-defense are learned by grades 7 - 12 students through these workshops. Students learn and practice the skills and knowledge of the "3 R’s": Recognize, React, and Respond. The first and foremost skill is "R, Recognize". It means that recognizing potentially dangerous situations is always the first and most important step and tool in self-defense. While no one skill is guaranteed to protect students from harm, these workshops are designed to provide tips, skills and knowledge that can dramatically increase their abilities to stay safe. |
| Sage Tyrtle Storyteller | Learning To Tell Compelling Stories | This literacy workshop focuses on finding each student’s personal storytelling voice. The storyteller discusses storytelling structure, elements to engage the audience, character development, and most importantly: making every single word count. Workshop weaves interactive games, exercises and personal storytelling together. Students learn how to create, write and perform personal stories. By sharing personal experiences with a variety of different people, students will foster mutual understandings about each other’s lives. |
| Saidat Vandenberg | The Saidat Show's School Assemblies | The assemblies and workshops use music, movement, and motivation to encourage diversity and inclusion within schools. Saidat shares personal stories of struggle and triumph through her music and message that touches the lives of others. Through music, drama, dance and speaking, the assemblies bring a message to students in a positive and uplifting atmosphere, while encouraging students to put aside their differences and unite against the social issues that they face every day.
Assembly titles include:
- Get Over Yourself: Learning to overlook the negative and create the impossible!
- Make Some Noise: Why the world needs to hear what you have to say!
- I Like Me Street teaches students the importance of kindness towards themselves and others (JK to grade 3).
- How to Survive School teaches students strategies to help them address challenges they may experience (grades 4 to 8). |
| Samyuktha Sharath Punthambekar | Indian Classical Dance Bharathanatyam and Indian Folk Dance | This enrichment dance program teaches Indian Dance, Bharathanatyam. Students learn the history, theory, movement, music and dance techniques associated with this 12th century Indian Art Form. Students practice movement based passages, expressions called Abhinaya and basic rhythm concepts. Workshop series is available to expand on dance techniques and merges Bharathanatyam with contemporary movements which culminates in a choreographed dance piece performed by the class. |
| San Romanoway Revitalization Association | Connecting Bridges Educational Outreach Program | The Connecting Bridges Educational Outreach Program offers life skills and mentoring to students in middle schools in the Jane-Finch community. Students participate in twice weekly sessions on self-esteem, self-identity, violence prevention, problem-solving and conflict resolution, communication, assertiveness training, time management, study skills, gender relations, racism and ethnicity, substance and alcohol abuse, healthy sexuality, bullying, cyber safety, gang resistance strategies, stress management, managing emotions, family dynamics, perceptions of schooling and education, education pathways, career and employment options. Students may also receive homework help and be paired with adult mentors who work one-on-one with students to provide positive role modelling.
The program includes a Family Support Program for the parents of participating students. Parents take part in bi-monthly support groups to discuss adolescent development issues, effective parenting strategies, communication skills, employment, substance use, and gang prevention. Parents may also be referred to appropriate community resources for help with housing, food security, employment and legal issues.
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| Scarborough Rotary Passport Club | Brush-A-Mania | This interactive presentation delivered to elementary students to promote good oral health every April which is proclaimed Oral Health Month. Dentist Rotarians visit schools to provide information on proper brushing and flossing techniques, good oral hygiene practice, and healthy eating. Students each receive a toothbrush to practise brushing their teeth, answer questions about brushing and have the opportunity to ask questions to the dentist. Students, teachers and parents are also invited to track students daily brushing habits in-class, and at home via an online 'brushtracker'. |
| Scarborough Women's Centre | Building Strong Futures | The variety of presentations on Building Self-Esteem, Healthy Relationships, Body Image, Goal Setting, Holistic Health. Presentations provide female students in Scarborough schools with information and supports that will enhance their self-esteem and develop positive healthy relationships and identify educational and career goals. |
| SCHC | Pediatric Health Initiative Clinic | Clinics in elementary and secondary schools address the issue of students in inner city communities who come to school with undiagnosed and untreated health concerns that prevent them from learning. Its objective is to provide students with access to a medical clinic, on site, in schools.
The initiative provides the services of a pediatric clinic in the school. Medical practitioners, including but exclusive to: nurse practitioners, physicians, pediatricians, community health workers; consult with students (and, if elementary school age, with their families) on a variety of medical, behavioural and developmental and school-related concerns.
Services may include, and are not limited to:
1. Medical - providing diagnoses, prescribing medications, health counselling and referrals to other medical specialists, or dietician.
2. Behavioural and Developmental - providing diagnoses, prescribing medications, related mental health counselling, referrals to specialist and/or community agencies.
3. Clinical services will be provided on a referral basis from:
a) Parents
b) Gift of Sight and Sound Program
c) School Support Team in selected feeder schools
d) Discretionary appointments through the in-school support team.
3) For secondary students, self-referral
Services are customized and implemented as required based on presenting issues at the time of booking appointments; and in collaboration with the clinic’s Advisory Committee. |
| School Heroes Unite | School Heroes Unite Assemblies | Through the use of magic tricks, storytelling, music and short videos, a core message of heroism, teamwork, kindness empathy and preventing bullying is shared with students. Students and staff have the opportunity to take part in fun games, magic and brainstorming to explore how to prevent bullying in their schools. Students help to create an action plan for their classrooms and school to perform small acts of kindness that have a much larger impact on creating caring schools. |
| Scientists in School | Scientists in School | Workshops for elementary students enhance curriculum and have students become immersed in inquiry: experimenting and learning alongside teachers and parent volunteers as they peer into microscopes, test their powers of observation; design pneumatic models to solve a problem; explore insect adaptations; experiment with levers and build bridges to their futures. Scientists in the Schools’ professionals bring specialized materials and equipment into the classroom, making the workshop hands-on for every child; and provide comprehensive Teacher Resource Packages that outline scientific concepts and provide extension activities easily implemented by teachers in the their own classrooms. All Scientists in School workshops, exclusive of the math offerings, are available for TDSB elementary schools. Approximately 50 topic choices are available. |
| Scott Ste Marie | Depression to Expression | Depression to Expression exists to create an honest dialogue about mental health by teaching specific cognitive tools to students to help them deal with the challenges they face. Depression to Expression reaches 20,000 unique youth around the world every day (7.3 million per year) through our mental health YouTube videos and thousands in person through school and business presentations. Main Topics of the Presentation Include:
1. Defining mental health and mental illness correctly. We dive deep into anxiety as this is the most common mental disorder; 2. Understanding The Cognitive Behavioural Triangle (Thoughts, Feelings, Behaviours); 3. Social Media and Mental Health (provided to both parent groups and students) . |
| Sean Mauricette | L.I.F.T. - Laying Important Foundations Together | Sean Mauricette raps, beat-boxes and speaks in this interactive motivational presentation on bullying, peer pressure, leadership, respect and the importance of laying a foundation in education. Students learn to set goals, the importance of education, respect self and reach for their personal best. The presentation focuses on leadership, education, steering clear of peer pressure and negative influences, creating and seizing opportunities, redefining success and the importance of trying. A question & answer and musical performance that involve student participation will follow each talk. |
| SEE Change Magazine | History of Social Change Workshops | These distinctive workshops develop students' appreciation for Canada’s unique struggles for social justice and the rights and freedoms we enjoy, while sharpening their storytelling skills. Leveraging the History of Social Change Multimedia Project (digital stories and ebook documenting social movements and key players), sponsored by Heritage Canada, these workshops demonstrate how our lives were transformed by social movements and their key players. They each feature a renowned. living Canadian figure of a social movement who will share their personal story. The facilitator (a veteran journalist) will then provide a lesson in journalism before leading the class through an interactive activity. By the end of the workshop, students have honed their verbal and written communication skills, developed their capacity for advocacy and gained a deeper grasp of social issues in Canadian history and their impact on present day.
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| Seedling Stories | Hands in the Garden | This food and garden program allows students to get their hands dirty while gardening, growing food, and learning about the natural environment and sustainability. Students learn and explore plant life cycles, biodiversity, composting, garden creatures, measuring and mapping garden beds, people involved in the food system, harvesting and creating simple snacks, and writing poems and creating skits about the garden. Through this hands-on program, students apply concepts they have learned in class in practical and direct ways. With a variety of workshops to choose from, this program is suitable for early years and elementary students and is offered in both French and English. Many of the workshops offered by this program do not require schools to have a garden and are available throughout the school year. Curriculum resources are available to support teachers. |
| Seneca College | Child and Youth Care (CYC) Field Placements | This program provides field placement opportunities for students in Child and Youth Care post-secondary programs. Field placements within TDSB sites provide post-secondary students who are considering a career in their specialized area, an opportunity to gain direct experience in understanding the learning strategies employed in classrooms. Field placement students collaborate with TDSB staff to enhance their understanding of curriculum; to plan and implement activities for students; and to foster positive relationships with students, staff and parents. These placements satisfy post-secondary course requirements for field placement experience.
Child and Youth Care field placement students may support TDSB students at any of the following activities: workshops; presentations; life skills development projects, campaigns and/or resources development.
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| Seneca College | Community Services Student Placements | This program provides field placement opportunities for students in the Social Service Worker, Behavioural Sciences and Social Service Worker Immigrants and Refugees programs at Seneca College. Field placements within TDSB sites provide Seneca students who are considering a career with youth, including youth with special needs, an opportunity to gain direct experience in understanding the learning strategies employed in classrooms and other sites. |
| Seneca College | Immigrant & Refugee Studies SSW Field Placements | This program provides field placement opportunities for Seneca College Students in the Immigration & Refugee Studies Social Service Work program. Field placements within TDSB sites provide post-secondary students who are considering a career in their specialized area, an opportunity to gain direct experience in understanding the learning strategies employed in TDSB sites. Field placement students collaborate with TDSB staff to enhance their understanding; to plan and implement activities; and to foster positive relationships with TDSB communities: students, staff and parents. These placements satisfy post-secondary course requirements for field placement experience.
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| Seneca College | Library and Information Technician Field Placements | This program provides field placement opportunities for post-secondary students in Library and Information Technician programs. Field placements within TDSB sites provide post-secondary students who are considering a career in their specialized area, an opportunity to gain direct experience in understanding the learning strategies employed in schools. Field placement students collaborate with TDSB staff to enhance their understanding of curriculum and information/resource needs; to plan and implement activities for students; and to foster positive relationships with students, staff and parents. These placements satisfy post-secondary course requirements for field placement experience. |
| Shakespeare Canada | Shakespeare for Kids School Tour | Shakespeare Canada is a non-profit, professional theatre company whose mission is to provide an inspiring and unforgettable theatre experience for students of all ages. Employing an innovative production staff and dynamic actors, we perform Shakespeare's timeless themes in a contemporary voice. Our versions of the classic Shakespeare plays are adapted to modern English for an easier understanding of the play by students of all ages. Productions and scheduling vary each year. Updated information is available at www.shakespearecanda.com |
| Shakespeare In Action | Shakespeare Meets Hip Hop | A signature workshop that transforms Shakespearian language into rap scenes with song and music, making it more relevant in today’s culture. Shakespeare In Action also offers additional workshops and in-school performances.
Workshops break down language barriers to make Shakespeare more accessible to students. Workshop facilitators help students take an active learning approach to reading and writing, creating interpretations of Shakespeare scenes. Students learn to analyze the language that is meaningful, employ word-play games, improvise the text to create original lyrics and poetry, and create Shakespeare rap scenes, songs and stories through music, dance and a multimedia video production. Professional development workshops are also offered to teachers and resource packages are available at http://www.shakespeareinaction.org/ |
| Shakespearience Performing Arts | The Shakespearience Experience | Interactive workshops empower students to develop character, confidence and communication skills through creatively and collaboratively overcoming the challenges they often associate with Shakespeare language. Students are assisted by some of Canada’s most celebrated and talented professional actors. These professionals demonstrate in a unique and innovative way how an artist’s approach to the texts, combined with a little persistence, imagination and hard work, can unlock and demystify material many young people find so difficult. Subsidies are available and professional development sessions can also be arranged for a program that has been hailed as "outstanding," "epic," "transforming," "engaging" and "something that exceeded all of my expectations." |
| Shaun Boothe | Live Your Legacy | This assembly presentation tells inspiring life stories of cultural icons through music and rhyme. |
| Sherbourne Health Centre Corporation | SOY & HEAT | Supporting Our Youth (SOY) is delivered by Sherbourne’s Human Rights Equity Team (HEAT). Sessions are presented by queer and trans spectrum young adults who are trained by Sherbourne to discuss the challenges faced by LGBTQ youth and address strategies for societal change. Facilitators share their lived experiences. They discuss how to create positive spaces and the use of appropriate language. With staff, the discussion includes how to facilitate a class using an anti-oppressive framework and practice. Workshops provide not only specific scenarios and helpful tips, but also practical resources. |
| Shoestring Opera | Opera for Kids in Schools | Shoestring Opera offers musical theatre performances of adapted classic operas, presented in an exuberant, child-friendly format with an emphasis on storytelling and musical excellence. All productions are available in English and bilingual ( French - English) formats. Every performance includes a study guide for classroom activities which is tied to curriculum expectations of character education, drama, language, music social studies and visual arts. All performances conclude with a Question and Answer period guided by the cast. Performers include young professional opera singers, a pianist and a cellist. All study guides are available online at http://shoestringopera.com/studyguides.html
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| Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Organization | From Yoga Mat to Peaceful Classroom | From Yoga Mat to Peaceful Classroom teaches yoga, breathing and mindfulness techniques. Introductory program teaches students beginner yoga postures, breathing and relaxation practices, positive thinking and meditation. Students learn yoga through demonstration, visualization, use of props, rhymes, games, stories and songs. Students also learn mindfulness techniques that develop life skills that enhance health and well-being. |
| Snakes & Lattes | Board Games en français | Workshop provide a conversational French language opportunity for students by bringing into French classrooms French board games and having two French facilitators interact with students. Students learn French through the learning and playing of various board games. The program provides a fun and engaging way for students to learn French, and to speak with facilitators whose first language is French. |
| Soul Drums Ltd. | Soul P.O.P. | Percussion Optimizes Potential (P.O.P.) enhances music and life skills through drumming. Sessions include drum circles in small or large class formats. This hands-on workshop provides students an opportunity to enhance their drumming skills with an emphasis on communication, team building, positive risk taking and leadership skills. Activities include musical games, song chants and performing music using a variety of percussion instruments. Additional resources and professional learning opportunities are available to staff who wish to enhance skills as a drum circle facilitator. |
| South Riverdale Community Health Centre | Asthma and Smoking Education | This presentation provides information and education on Asthma and smoking. Topics include the minimization of symptoms; what to do in a situation of an asthma attack; and smoking cessation. |
| South Riverdale Community Health Centre | Pediatric Health Initiative Clinic | Clinics in elementary and secondary schools address the issue of students in inner city communities who come to school with undiagnosed and untreated health concerns that prevent them from learning. Its objective is to provide students with access to a medical clinic, on site, in schools.
The initiative provides the services of a pediatric clinic in the school. Medical practitioners, including but exclusive to: nurse practitioners, physicians, pediatricians, community health workers; consult with students (and, if elementary school age, with their families) on a variety of medical, behavioural and developmental and school-related concerns.
Services may include, and are not limited to:
1. Medical - providing diagnoses, prescribing medications, health counselling and referrals to other medical specialists, or dietician.
2. Behavioural and Developmental - providing diagnoses, prescribing medications, related mental health counselling, referrals to specialist and/or community agencies.
3. Clinical services will be provided on a referral basis from:
a) Parents
b) Gift of Sight and Sound Program
c) School Support Team in selected feeder schools
d) Discretionary appointments through the in-school support team.
3) For secondary students, self-referral
Services are customized and implemented as required based on presenting issues at the time of booking appointments; and in collaboration with the clinic’s Advisory Committee. |
| South Riverdale Community Health Centre | South Riverdale Health Clinic_CALC | A nurse practitioner consults with Ed Vance and adult students on a variety of primary health care needs as identified through student focus groups. |
| Special Olympics Ontario | Special Olympics Ontario School Partnership | This initiative offers physical activity programs to special needs students with intellectual disabilities that also provides curriculum resources for teachers to use in classrooms in order to increase students' physical literacy and sport specific skills development. Active Start; FUNdamentals; Youth Multi-Sport curriculum. Step into Action (all grades) – is an initiative that engages students with intellectual disabilities to get active and enhance their physical activity levels by participating in activities that are measured using pedometers such as walking, jogging running and dancing. PAHL (Physical Activity Healthy Living) Sports Festivals; Four Corners Provincial School Championships; Hockey for Hockey clinics; and, regional/provincial athletic competitions are offered in which student athletes with special needs may compete, and provides opportunities for non-disabled students to engage with and support their peers with disabilities. Resources are available for download at www.specialolympicsontario.com.
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| Square Circle | Social Circus In School | Social Circus In School Program is a social circus and creative arts program to foster life-skills, confidence and resilience in students in grades 5 and 6 students at 4 selected school in WR9.
This 8-week program provides an alternative, non-competitive physical and artistic outlet while building life and social skills. Workshops are comprised of physical social games, trust and relationship building, creative exercises for students to develop individual creative expression. Students learn a variety of circus arts including juggling, poi, floor balancing, clowning, dance, acting/improvisation. The program culminates in a show and tell, students talk and display their creative art. |
| St. Stephen's Community House | Game Changers - Restorative Justice Conflict Mediation | The program trains students to be Youth Peer Mediators in their schools and communities and help resolve peer to peer and/or youth to adult conflicts through a proactive problem-solving process. The training fosters leadership and pro-social skills, shared accountability, and builds individual and systemic capacity to manage conflicts at a personal and school level with mediation and includes training adult mediators from the school to act as co-mediators, as is deemed appropriate for each case. The program aids students, teachers and Administrators in resolving conflicts through a proven problem-solving process. Trained mediators are supported by school staff and receive ongoing support and training. |
| Stand Up for Student Well Being Inc. | Stand Up for Student Well Being | Participants learn about stand-up comedy using an innovative, activity-based approach to teach literacy skills and mental health awareness. Several activities are completed in a single workshop, or through weekly sessions over a six week period. These include performing a one-minute joke that is written by a peer and writing and performing a two-minute stand-up comedy act about them. Comedian coaches support participants to develop their stand-up routines and students with the strongest scripts will write and perform in their school’s Stand-Up Comedy Showcase. |
| Start2Finish | Run4Change:The Clinic,The Challenge, The Change | Working with interested teachers and student leaders through an annual fall orientation, a spring 'mid-program' refresher, and localized support, this program provides physical literacy and effective DPA skills, knowledge and resources to inspire participating school communities in the 20/20 Challenge (20 minutes of fitness per day for 20 weeks), and localized or central culminating run events, that tie physical fitness and well-being with social justice. Progressive programming inspires determination, resiliency, goal-setting and perseverance, and students seeing themselves as change agents. A motivator for culminating events is awareness-raising or fundraising for a social justice cause of the school's choosing. |
| Starts With Me Inc. | State of Mind | Students are invited to participate in a guided meditation as preparation for the discussion on the stigmas associated with mental health, the warning signs of someone's mental health, and the recovery and well-being available to those seeking support. The presentation of the topic in general merges with a lived-experience story from one who is living with a mental illness or has personal experience in the world of mental health. A Q&A session facilitated to protect anonymity completes the hour, where questions submitted in writing or on blank papers are read and answered. This provides students and staff the opportunity to ask questions that they may not feel comfortable asking out loud. Professional Support Service staff associated with the Mental Health Strategy and/or the school in which the presentation is scheduled are present for these sessions, to assist teacher, partner and class, as needed. Following the presentation, students are encourage to create an art piece reflective of what they have learned and/or in response to the session. Schools can choose whether or not to participate in the State of Mind Youth Mental Health Festival each spring; and students can choose whether to submit their art pieces for display at the offsite festival.
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| Steve Chapelle Communications | Social Media Behaviour Education | This presentation offers training to students on how to minimize internet risks and explore four core subjects: cyberbullying, personal information, inappropriate messages and protection. Students will learn to minimize and maintain their privacy in the on-line world. Presentation is also available to parents through school councils.
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| StopGap Foundation | Accessibility & Inclusion: Building Awareness | This presentation raises awareness about physical disability, accessibility and inclusion. Luke Anderson shares how one moment in time changes his life forever and how he finds himself living in a world not well designed for someone in a wheelchair. He explains his personal experiences, challenges he faces and how he overcomes. Students learn about barriers that people with disabilities may face, the importance of a barrier-free and inclusive community, as well as empowering language when referring to people with disabilities. Resources are available for teachers to implement beyond the presentation.
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| Storyvalues Inc. | Interactive Storytelling | The Interactive Storytelling program provides schools with a variety of assemblies and in-class workshops that explore themes of holidays, seasons, heritages and traditions. The program uses interactive storytelling and drama to enhance students’ cultural awareness, communication, creative and literacy skills. Interactive dramatization along with student participation and small group discussions allow student to explore further salient themes. The program also includes limited access to Storyvalues On-line, an online resource where students learn about folktales, art and music through games, videos and puzzles. Storyvalues On-line is available at http://www.storyvalues.com/Online/journey.html. |
| Stratford Festival | Learning Through Theatre | Workshops offer enrichment to the Stratford Festival's season plays with a focus on contemporary engagement with Shakespeare and Musical Theatre. They may focus on a genre or a specific play with an emphasis on key issues/questions explored and what they mean to students. They may include an introduction to fight choreography as well as an invitation for students to learn and develop particular dance choreography or vocal arrangements. All workshops are delivered by professional teaching artists through communal active exercises and hands-on exploration. Professional development workshops for staff and specialized customized workshops are also available.
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| Studio 180 Theatre | Studio 180 INCLASS Workshops | The program uses drama to create a safe space for effective dialogue and self-discovery. In-class workshops offer in-depth, immersive experiences that mine the unique power of the theatre to humanize social and political issues and cultivate open dialogues and artistic expression. Artist educators work with students to encourage them to think critically, explore multiple viewpoints, promote empathy and inspire creativity through proposition exercises, hot seating and improvisation. Workshops may be based on Studio 180’s current production, or may be theme-based and explore topics including identity, legacy, family and personal responsibility. |
| Success Beyond Limits | Success Beyond Limits School Year Program | Success Beyond Limits School Year Program works with students at Westview Centennial Secondary School to facilitate Mentorships and peer-to-peer support opportunities through scheduled sessions and drop-in activities. It provides students with community, social and career connections to events, organizations, conferences and other projects beyond school to support their personal and academic development in the community. It engages all grades, with a particular emphasis on encouraging participation from Grade 9 & 10 students. Grade 10 students who continue as participants to gradually assume mentoring roles as they progress into Grade 11 & 12. Specific student leadership sessions are designed to train students for peer-to-peer mentoring roles. Homework help, food and recreational activities are also scheduled outside of the instructional day.
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| Success Beyond Limits | Success Beyond Limits Summer Credit Support | Supports and activities that include youth-to-youth peer mentorship engage Grade 8 students who are enrolled in a Continuing Education summer course that nurtures a successful transition into secondary school. For students in Learning Centre 2, these curriculum enhancement activities inspire and assist them to improve their educational outcomes, expand possibilities, and provide support to expand their individual paths to success. |
| Suitcase Theatre | Suitcase Dramatic Arts Workshops | A menu of workshops is available to choose from, including: All the World is a Stage is an engaging and interactive workshop that gives students the opportunity to explore the vibrant history of live theatre. Students will learn about the importance of collaboration as they work with their peers to create short adaptations of classical fairy tales and fables.“Improv your Acting” is a lively and humour-filled workshop that invites students to think on their feet as they are introduced to the world of improvisation. This exhilarating workshop encourages teamwork and peer support as they work together to create scenarios that invite fast creative thinking and a quick all mixed with a good dose of humour.“Confidence Creates Character” offers students a safe space to express themselves. Students will explore strategies to approach difficult social settings by developing skills to alleviate anxiety, deal with peer pressure and handle bullying. |
| Suitcase Theatre | Suitcase Theatre/Arts Outreach and Performances | These musicals and plays inspire and promote positive self-awareness through storytelling, singing, the visual arts and drama. Characters in the plays and the characterization workshops create positive role modelling; encourage self-confidence, kindness and compassion; promote building healthy relationships, resilience and collaboration. They help students understand narrative structure, enhance character development in drama and enrich their vocabulary in the creative development process. |
| Sunnybrook Academic Family Health Team | Adolescent Outreach Program | Adolescent Outreach Program offers 1 hour presentations related to mental and physical health. Topics include anxiety, sleep, depression, substance abuse, bullying, aggression/anger, body image, nutrition as well as coping strategies and stress reduction. Students learn strategies to improve their personal well-being. Interactive methods such as games and small group activities are used followed by an anonymous question and answer session. Family Medicine Residents work with school staff (i.e., Guidance, Physical Education or Professional Support staff) to identify topics and review presentations. Any students who require additional support that includes community involvement and participation will be referred to school staff. |
| Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | Using Literature as an Innovative Tool for Teaching Mental Health Literacy | Through this partnership programming, educators learn how to impart basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) skills and general mental health literacy to middle-school age youth through an engaging professional learning session and follow-up coaching designed for English/Literacy teachers and middle school staff teams. Students’ mental health and wellness can potentially be safeguarded and enhanced through increased teacher awareness, knowledge, skills, and via curricula that embed mental health literacy components within a literature unit. |
| Surrey Place Centre | Surrey Place Centre's Developmental Services | This Program provides supports to students with special needs in their transition into schools. Surrey Place staff work with students and families in their homes and in community-based settings to assist students and families as students move into classroom settings. Surrey Place helps families to implement TDSB staff’s recommendations to ensure students’ success, health and well-being. TDSB staff may refer students and families to the Program to receive home and community-based assistance.
Surrey Place staff may observe students in their classrooms with the consent of the Principal and classroom teacher. Surrey Place also provides information to TDSB staff to enhance their ability to support students as they move into classrooms, including written and online resources available at www.surreyplace.on.ca.
Surrey Place will also provide a list of staff who are working in schools to TDSB Professional Support Services and Care. |
| Swimmers Group | The Power of Print | Workshops, held both in-school and off-site at a publishing studio, help students understand the history of printmaking (Gutenberg) and the effects of printmaking today. Students learn about a publishing house, the skills required to run it and the importance of printmaking in society - despite our ever-growing reliance on digital information and consumption. At the end of the second workshop, students will prepare to have their own creative work 'published' (that is, made into a book) through the use of the printing press. The off-site workshops begin with a tour of the publishing studio, the equipment that makes mass-publishing and printing possible, as well as history on the first printing presses and how they operated compared to the machines of today. After creation of cover art, students will then have their works made into books, with the process shown live. |
| TakingITGlobal | Connected North | Through collaborative project based learning, Taking IT Global develops unique content and connections for schools in the north and south to access cultural exchange opportunities and curriculum enhancement north to north connections. Educators are supported in the use of collaborative technology for professional learning, mentorship and incorporation into the classroom. Professional learning experts and peer mentors can instruct and interact with teachers in remote locations, providing them access to expertise that might otherwise have been very difficult to acquire. Students in class connect through online video-conferencing with one another's classes, schools and locations. |
| TakingITGlobal | Professional Learning for Future Friendly Schools | TakingITGlobal offers a global online learning community for educators and students interested in addressing global issues. It explores practical ways to include global education across various disciplines. TDSB educators complete one of three graduate level, accredited on-line courses (Global Citizenship, Student Voice, and Environmental Stewardship) by attending weekly classes, and participating in discussions, completing assignments and developing a culminating project. |
| Tara Badal-Mohammed | You and Your Money | The presentation seeks to enhance students' financial literacy skills. Topics include: setting effective S.M.A.R.T. goals, preparing a budget, savings and investments, controlling debt, and setting goals in different areas of life. |
| Tata Consultancy Services Inc | goIT | GoIT is an in-class, hands-on program for students to learn about computer programming, coding and robotics, and gain an understanding of possible careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. |
| Taylor Sutherland | Chekhov Theatre | Anton Chekhov's writing revolutionized the world of theatre. He wrote stories that championed the everyday man living a common life, characters who suffer defeats both great and small, at once comic and tragic. This workshop teaches acting techniques rooted in the work of Stanislavsky and Mikhail Chekhov. Students explore one of Chekhov's plays and build scene work using character analysis, improvisation, etudes, ensemble development and choral chant culminating in a presentation at the end of the workshop series. |
| Team Unbreakable | Team Unbreakable | Schools interested in establishing a running club to focus on mental health and stress-reduction techniques contact CameronHelps for professional learning training and resources. This program is setup as a 12-week program to TDSB designated staff. Additional resources can be found on the website at www.teamunbreakable.ca/forms/lessons. |
| Techzenik Robotics & Information System | STEMatize Schools | This hands-on workshop provides students with building blocks and materials to create, design, program, build and operate a Robot. Workshop provides access to new technologies and information on how to utilize them. Students solve real world problems through automating a small Robot and programming them to perform simple tasks. Older students use advanced sensors and program blocks to accomplish complex and detailed tasks and sequences. Students also learn effective programming techniques and language, utilize mathematical, problem solving and logical skills to create and code applications.
List of workshops available: Robotics - LEGO We-Do 1 & 2, Minstorms EV3 Beginners & Advanced, VeX IQ, VeX EDR; Electronics and Computer Engineering - Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Build Your Own Computer; Programming - Programming and Designing with Python, Programming with Java, Build Your Own App using Android Studio, Creative Technology - Adobe Photoshop, 2D Animation, 3D Animation. |
| TELUS | TELUS WISE | TELUS WISE (Wise Internet and Smartphone Education) presentation educates students, parents and teachers on maintaining internet and smartphone safety and security to prevent activities such as fraud and cyberbullying. |
| The Chess 'n Math Association | Math n' Chess Schools Program | Learning to play chess helps students develop mathematical, logistical and analytical skills. It improves their concentration and memory. It bolsters their self-esteem and their ability to collaborate and interact with others. This program delivers a structured nine-level course for students who then may take part in the culminating event of a chess tournament. Using games, exercises and worksheets students learn the rules of the games, how to solve problems, work in teams, and use judgement. Students learn to think ahead and anticipate the moves of their opponents by developing their logic and reasoning skills. |
| The Concerned Kids Charity of Toronto | Expanded Communicating Through Puppetry | Presentations use puppetry to address bullying, anger management, mental health, peer pressure and substance abuse topics in order to maintain respect and enhance students’ self-esteem and personal safety and the safety of others. The presentation is followed by a question and answer session to allow students to ask questions about the issues raised. The presentations aim to empower students in kindergarten -Grade 6 to make smarter and kinder choices and help to create safer schools and communities. |
| The Director's Cut | The Director's Cut Media Literacy Workshops | The Director's Cut workshops turn classrooms into fun, interactive and engaged Hollywood studios for the day. Using a mobile digital media lab and led by Imaginators, students transform their creativity and imagination into an Oscar-worthy media production. Students work in small groups using the latest digital film equipment. Workshop topics include self-esteem and body image, cyberbullying, digital media storytelling, stop motion animation, and music video production.
Workshops are also available in French.
Imaginators are leading filmmakers and digital media specialists who take a class through the filmmaking process over the course of a day. Lesson plans, assessment, evaluation and other resources are available from The Director’s Cut. |
| The Etobicoke Children's Centre | Ready Set Go | Program activities include games, crafts, reading & singing, cooperative activities, discussions, self reflection, relaxation, learning and practicing identified skills, and role playing. |
| The Flight Power Foundation | Flightunit Careers Awareness | Students are exposed to industry professionals and careers in multiple areas through conferences and workshops to increase student success and career exploration. Professionals from various industries lead sessions to provide specific information from sectors that include Music, Art & Culture, Health, Sports & Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Trades, Business & Advertising, Health Care, Learning Skills, Sciences and Pharmaceutical Industry. Skills being developed are career decision making, conducting research, problem solving, personal learning strategies, and networking with industry leaders.
Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship (ICE) training and SHSM certification are also available.
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| The Learning Partnership | Coding Quest | Coding Quest is a STEM based program for gr 4-6 that teaches fundamental coding and gamification while developing global competencies such as computational thinking, etc. |
| The Learning Partnership | Entrepreneurial Adventure and Dragon's Nest | Entrepreneurial Adventure and Dragon's Nest turn ideas into reality by bringing together teachers and business partners to mentor students and help them create their own ventures. Students, as well as their teachers and volunteers from the business community, become truly entrepreneurial, thinking creatively, exploring possibilities, experimenting, communicating, collaborating, and realizing their dreams of showcasing an entrepreneurial idea. |
| The Learning Partnership | Global Solutions | The Learning Partnership provides professional learning sessions on the Global Solutions program and resources. It introduces teachers to resources and teaching & learning strategies through which students to a current complex global problem (a "Challenge Topic"), and the background, tools and guidance to propose innovative solutions. The Global Solutions program is fully aligned with the Ontario Ministry of Education course curricula and serves as an effective in-class tool to help teachers across many disciplines to expand the minds of their students while delivering on course expectations.
Because of the interdisciplinary nature of these complex global problems, the challenge topics in the Global Solutions program can be used in a number of different courses, and they align with a large number of secondary school course curricula, including:SBI3C/4U: Biology • CGW4U: World Issues • CGU4U: World Geography • CIA4U: Analysing Current Economic Issues • BDI3C: Entrepreneurship: The Venture • BBB4U: International Business • BMI3C: Marketing: Goods, Services, Events • TJC3C/4C: Construction Engineering Technology • HSB4U: Challenge and Change in Society. |
| The Learning Partnership | Investigate! Invent! Innovate! | This is an integrated science and technology program for elementary school students in grades 7 and 8. The goal is to instill passion for learning about science, mathematics and technology and to foster an entrepreneurial spirit. The program culminates each year with an Invention Convention.The I3 program provides resources and presentations for students, and professional learning sessions for teachers, to develop students’ mathematical understanding, problem-solving skills, and related scientific and technological skills that they can apply in their daily lives and, eventually, in the workplace. |
| The Learning Partnership | Turning Points | The Learning Partnership facilitates Professional Learning Sessions in Turning Points, a character awareness and literacy program that provides opportunities for students in Grades 6 - 12 to read, write and think about their fundamental values. Program resource guides, e-learning modules, annual anthology and culminating contest recognition event are available to participating students who are engaged with their teachers in a process of self-reflection and discussions that leads to writing a narrative essay about a significant event - a turning point - in which students organize and express their thoughts about the principles that guide their lives. |
| The Message, Inc | The Message Media Literacy Program | The program helps youth to tap into the power of mass media by enhancing their media literacy and critical thinking skills. Mass media affects the way we think, feel and act and when used responsibly, present unprecedented opportunities for connecting, sharing and learning. Through in-class workshops and assemblies, students examine media ownership, consumer choice, deciding between bias and opinion, “fake news,” racism, sexism and inequality, and substance use in popular culture. The goal of the program is to empower students to be responsible in the digital age. |
| The Mosaic Institute | Next Generation | Students have an opportunity to learn and feel confident in their ability to be become effective social agents and active citizens, locally, nationally and internationally. The following themes are covered: identity and privilege, prejudice and discrimination, citizenship and social action. This free program highlights the contributions that different diaspora communities have made to Canada's social fabric and sheds light on identity issues and solutions, especially those that students face within their own environment. Students develop social action projects as a tangible act of local and global citizenship which culminates in a presentation to social leaders for feedback. Program can be customized to suit a school's needs and program can be a one-time workshop or as a full 4 day program. |
| The Pottery | The Pottery Clay Workshops | In these workshops, the facilitator works with clay sculpture and story development in an effort to allow students the chance to explore their own artistic nature and to tell their own stories. Students will learn how to plan, design and create clay pieces. The theme and focus of each art project will be determined in consultation with classroom teachers to ensure curriculum connections. The finished pieces re fired and delivered back to schools within three weeks. |
| The Purple Fig | The Little Fig Children's Writing Workshops | This English Literacy writing workshop incorporates individual and group activities to strengthen writing, language, and analytical skills. Some workshops use a narrative, The Hero’s Journey, as a guideline to teach students about story development and encourage them to express themselves to develop their very own story. Other workshops may use the structure of a first person essay narrative to tell the personal story of the student through memoir style writing. For the younger grades, the workshop will consist of creating a story collaboratively and then performing the story in a play-like presentation. During the process students will learn the art of storytelling by establishing the following: Who is the Hero? What does the Hero want? Why can't the hero get what he/she wants? The Facilitator will work with the teacher prior to the first session to establish relevant curriculum related readings and topics for this creative writing workshop. |
| The Royal Conservatory of Music | Learning Through The Arts (LTTA) Design Media Arts Project | The program offers professional development and artist-teacher mentorship in digital media arts and music to create and deliver arts-infused core curriculum to elementary students. Digital media arts is a collaborative teaching and learning method that uses writing, visual storytelling, audio, image and graphic design and performance. The year-long program has artist-educators mentor and support teachers in developing media art skills and instructional design to effectively integrate arts experiences into the curriculum. Teachers will enhance their skills and be able to deliver inclusive education to Aboriginal and diverse student populations through the use of digital media arts. Teachers, along with their students, design and implement a culminating year-end project.
Teachers attend three workshops over the year to deepen their understanding and use of grounding pedagogy, deeply questioning and engagement in creative processes. At the workshops, teachers explore instructional resources and apps that enhance the delivery, ideation and creation of digital media arts. |
| The STEPS Initiative | STEPS.Studio | Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Spaces (STEPS) Initiative provides art workshops to engage the school community in the collaborative production of an environmentally-themed public art installation. Facilitators help students explore public space and urban design issues facing their communities and issues of social and environmental impact. Students learn real-world design considerations, how public spaces can be improved upon and environmentally sound solutions. Using a variety of art mediums and techniques, students design and produce a public artwork that serves function, aesthetics and that celebrates the community. |
| The Travelling Stage | Performing Arts Enhancement Workshops | Drama and dance performances; and, select workshops that foster an appreciation for Canadian dance, drama and theatre are available. Excursion opportunities are also offered. Performances vary each year, and revised promotional material is available online at www.travellingstage.com. Select workshops available for TDSB schools include, but are not limited to the following:
DRAMA: "Page to Stage" "Improv" Students are engaged in the art of storytelling by performing a well known tale or fable; or improvising. Students explore character, setting and plot with the end result being to have students bring the story to life through improvisation techniques, and/or by performing it using costume pieces and props.
DANCE: "Decades of Dance" and "Percussion & Props" - Students engage in the history and current relevance of various dance styles; and, tools to explore, create and execute movement. Although the Artist Educator has created the choreography on their own, students will collaborate to bring the choreography to life. |
| The Umbrella Effect Inc. | The Umbrella Project | Similar to an umbrella protecting us from the rain, a collection of well-being skills can protect us from times of calm and stress. This workshop teaches a collection of skills that form emotional well-being: empathy, gratitude, self-compassion, purpose, resiliency and developing a growth mindset. Through lessons, videos, group discussion, personal reflection and observation of the world around them, students learn real life applications of each skill and gain deeper insight into why these skills are essential. Workshops may be offered in French and parent presentations are available. |
| The Water Brothers TV Series | The Water Brothers Eco-Adventures | Presentation to educate, inspire and engage audiences about water-related environmental issues occurring on the planet today. Students will learn about environmental challenges in Canada and around the world, the root causes of these problems and their role in helping to overcome these challenges, and learn more about environmental stewardship. Topics include: climate change, access to clean water & sanitation, water infrastructure, renewable energy, biodiversity, invasive species, deforestation, drought, floods, illegal & overfishing, the water cycle, agriculture, plastic building up in our oceans and lake, water in space, earth sciences, sustainable fishing etc. Teacher resources and interactive learning portal are available for each of the topics can be found online at http://thewaterbrothers.ca. |
| The Wynford Group Inc. | Build Character, Build Success | This three-part programming builds more inclusive school communities through deepening students’ understanding of character attributes. First, a ‘recess planning session’ for student leaders and a staff designate to brainstorm games and activities that all students can participate in safely and where no one is left out. Second, these planning sessions lead to the collaborative facilitation by student leaders, staff designate and the Wynford Group of an all-inclusive recess event with the entire elementary school. Third, a follow-up debriefing session and ongoing support for similar events led only by TDSB students and staff, is provided to schools. |
| The Yoga Project | Normalizing Yoga & Mindfulness in Education | This workshop teaches yoga, breathing and mindfulness techniques through spontaneous movement and a structured approach. The program incorporates yoga poses and movements, breathing exercises, mindfulness exercises, song and games for the younger students, and challenging yoga poses and partner work for older students. A large focus is placed on stress-reduction, mindfulness, and celebrating uniqueness. Professional development opportunities are available to staff. |
| Theatre Direct | Theatre Direct Program | Theatre Direct provides workshops and performances that support enhanced drama, storytelling and story-acting for young audiences.
Students will participate in drama workshops which includes vocal, physical warm up, cooperative circle games and improvisation games. The Kindergarten workshop will focus on games and dramatic storytelling. Schools may choose to schedule 1 workshop or a series of workshops . Resource materials are provided to teachers to further integrate drama and storytelling in the classroom.
Theatre Direct produces one performance per year that features a particular theme and focus. Productions may be held off-site as per Excursion Policy. |
| Theatricks Theatre Co. 4 Kids | Theatricks Theatre In-School Workshops_Gledhill JPS | Informed by the Ontario Guidelines for the Drama and Dance curriculum, these workshops are designed to engage elementary students in active participation enhancing their understanding of drama and increasing self-confidence and creativity. Students indulge their own creativity while developing a set of skills for improvisational acting, increasing their self-confidence and ability to work cooperatively, and express themselves publicly. |
| Think 2wice | Think 2wice | The program facilitates workshops and motivational speaking topics that aim to prevent youth violence, gang involvement and criminal activity. Guest speakers with lived experience of gang involvement and the criminal justice system engage youth to take up positive leadership roles in their schools and communities and to create violence free schools, communities, and lives. Using creative arts such as dance, spoken word and drama, the program seeks to help youth find their life’s purpose. |
| Think Don't Shoot | It Starts Within | The entertaining presentation teaches students strategies to manage the psychological, physiological and sociological effects of violence and bullying. Students learn how to be leaders, communicate and to take control of their emotions in order to improve their emotional intelligence and resiliency. See: www.thinkdontshoot.com |
| Thinking Forward | Thinking Forward Leadership Program | Thinking Forward offers character development and leadership training for students, primarily in Model Schools, to help children and youth strengthen their interpersonal and leadership skills, and to challenge them to address social needs. Thinking Forward provides inclusive and equitable learning opportunities that use the arts and leadership development as a platform to help students develop and improve their well-being. Students participate in hands-on, art activities that highlight themes of belonging, diversity, anti-bullying, teamwork, and community. A variety of methods, resources and activities are used including painting, role-playing, designing and building, illustrating, and art exhibits to showcase student work. The program is customizable to suit the needs and schedule of the school and students. |
| ThriveKids | Fit.Focus.Fearless | Students participate in 20 minutes each of body, mind, and character activities in order to develop confidence, self-reliance, healthy life skills and habits. The 20/20/20 Circuit™, three- part program allows students to manage their bodies from head to toe through the following components: 1. vigorous exercise to release excess energy and endorphins while enhancing executive function, concentration and engagement; 2. life skills activity that incorporate creativity and play while teaching social interaction skills; 3. mindfulness activity to manage thoughts, emotions and self-regulation. Facilitators provide tools and techniques that can be incorporated in every day scenarios. A teacher resource is provided for teachers to continue incorporating the lessons with their students.
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| Tides Canada Initiatives - Enviromentum | Climate Conversations | Climate Conversations (CCs) is a workshop that employs Motivational Interviewing (MI), an evidence-based strategy, to help high school students explore and resolve their conflicting feelings on issues related to climate change.
Students learn skills in areas of self-awareness and self-control, teamwork, individual power and ownership in their own solutions to reduce carbon footprints and taking more sustainable actions.
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| TNO - The Neighbourhood Organization | Settlement Education Partnership Toronto SEPT | SEPT offers settlement services to newly arrived families and secondary school students in schools’ satellite and reception centres. Settlement Workers deliver individual/family services, or group programs that help participants understand and successfully transition into the education system; and accelerate the settlement process. SEPT also delivers two programs in the summer for newly arrived students and families, some of whom are enrolled in TDSB summer school courses. These programs include: Newcomer Orientation Week (NOW) program for secondary students; and, Welcome Information for Newcomer (WIN) program for middle school students and families. |
